Royal Mail Group Ltd

ROYAL MAIL GROUP LTD SCHEME IL1/2008

[This note is not part of the Scheme]

NOTE: The Scheme that follows this Note is made under Section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000 and amends the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Letter Post Scheme 2001. This Scheme, which comes into force on 7th April 2008, provides notification of changes to the prices for several services set out in Schedule 1.

ROYAL MAIL GROUP LTD INLAND LETTER POST

(AMENDMENT No 24) SCHEME 2008

Made......................14 March 2008

Coming into operation................ 7 April 2008

Royal Mail Group Ltd (a) by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by section 89 of the POSTAL SERVICES ACT 2000 (b) and of all other powers enabling it in this behalf, hereby makes the following Scheme:

Commencement, citation and interpretation

1.	This Scheme shall come into operation on 7 April 2008 and may be cited as the Royal Mail Group Ltd Inland Letter Post Scheme (Amendment No.24) 2008.
2.	This Scheme shall be read as one with the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Letter Post Scheme 2001 (c) (hereinafter called “the Scheme”) as amended by the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.1) 2001,(d) the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.2) 2001,(e) the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.3) 2001,(f) the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.4) 2002,(g) the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.5) 2002,(h) the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.6) 2003,(i) the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.7) 2003,(j) the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.8) 2003, (k) the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.9) 2004,(l) the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.10) 2004.(m), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.11) 2004.(n), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.12) 2004.(o), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.13) 2004 (p), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.14) 2004 (q), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.15) 2005 (r), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.16) 2005 (s), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.17) 2005 (t), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.18) 2005(u), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.19) 2006 (v), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.20) 2006(w), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.21) 2006(x), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.22) 2006(y), and the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.23) 2007(z).
3.	A reference in this Scheme to the Successor Postal Services Company shall be read as a reference to Royal Mail Group Ltd.
VARIOUS

Any reference in the Scheme to Royal Mail Group plc shall now be replaced with Royal Mail Group Ltd.

SCHEDULE 1 Postage Rates and Fees

Paragraphs 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 20 of Schedule 1 of the Scheme shall be deleted and the following substituted

1. ADMAIL

	Number of Days	Fee
	(Duration of Agreement)
	30	£126
	60	£220
	90	£285
	180	£500
	365	£750

In addition to the fees listed above, all Admail customers must have a Response Services licence (the cost of which may be found in paragraph 18 below), irrespective of whether they already hold such a licence.

3. BUSINESS COLLECTIONS

	Number or value of items	Fee
a	Single collection	£10.00
b	Daily collection (Monday to Friday only) from a
	specific site if spending less than £15,000 on
	postage with Royal Mail per year at that site	£450 per annum
c	Daily collection from a specific site if spending
	more than £15,000 on postage with Royal Mail
	per year at that site	Free
d	Regular Saturday collection	£130 per annum
4. BUSINESS KEEPSAFE

The fee for the Business Keepsafe service is £28.00 for any period up to a maximum of 66 days. The provision of section 23.4 may apply over the Christmas and Easter periods and on Public or Bank Holidays.

7. DIVERSION

The fee is £249 per annum per address

8. FIRST AND SECOND CLASS POSTAGE RATES

FIRST CLASS

			Payment Channel(p)
	Format	Size	Weight	Postage	Pre-paid	Smart	Franked	Printed
			(g)	Stamp	Stationery	Stamp	Mark	Postage
					Mark	Mark		Impression
	Letters	Maximum	0-100	36	36	36	34	34
		240 x
		165mm
		5mm
		thick
	Large	Maximum
	Letters	353 x	0-100	52	52	52	46	46
		250mm	101–250	78	78	78	69	69
		25mm	251 – 500	108	108	108	99	99
		thick	501 –750	157	157	157	144	144
	Packets
		Over	0-100	114	114	114	106	106
		353mm	101 – 250	145	145	145	134	134
		long or	251 – 500	194	194	194	168	168
		250mm	501 – 750	251	251	251	213	213
		wide or	751 – 1000	308	308	308	261	261
		over 25mm	1001 - 1250	430	430	430	365	365
		thick	1251 – 1500	500	500	500	427	427
			1501 – 1750	570	570	570	489	489
			1751 – 2000	640	640	640	551	551
			2001 – 4000	822	822	822	739	739
			Each		280	280	280	252	252
	additional
	2kg or
	part
	thereof
SECOND CLASS
Payment Channel(p)
	Format	Size	Weight	Postage	Pre-paid	Smart	Franked	Printed
			(g)	Stamp	Stationery	Stamp	Mark	Postage
					Mark	Mark		Impression
	Letters	Maximum	0-100	27	27	27	24	24
		240 x
		165mm
		5mm
		thick
	Large	Maximum
	Letters	353 x	0-100	42	42	42	37	37
		250mm	101–250	66	66	66	56	56
		25mm	251 – 500	90	90	90	81	81
		thick	501 –750	131	131	131	117	117
	Packets
		Over	0-100	95	95	95	90	90
		353mm	101 – 250	124	124	124	115	115
		long or	251 – 500	163	163	163	141	141
		250mm	501 – 750	208	208	208	176	176
		wide or	751 – 1000	249	249	249	211	211
		over 25mm
		thick

Please note that items heavier than 1000g cannot be sent Second Class

9. FLOOR FEES

The fee is £100 per annum for each floor that Royal Mail has to travel up or down in addition to the number of floors it would normally travel up or down on collection and delivery.

The fee is waived if the customer spends more than £15,000 per year at that site.

10. KEEPSAFE

	Retention Period	Fee (per household)
	Up to 17 days	£8.50
	18 to 24 days	£12.00
	25 to 31 days	£15.00
	32 to 66 days	£28.00
11. PO BOXES
	Box	Early &	Delivery	Diversion
	Fee	Late Access	of letters	of letters
				to PO Box
6 months	£48.80	+£48.85	+£48.85	+£48.85
12 months	£60.15	+£60.20	+£60.20	+£60.20
15. RECORDED

The fee is 72p per letter in addition to the First and Second Class postage.

16. REDIRECTION

	Duration	To or from a United	To or from a United
		Kingdom business	Kingdom residential
		address per business name	address per name
	1 month	£14.85	£7.35
	3 months	£24.90	£16.15
	6 months	£49.80	£24.90
	12 months	£74.75	£37.40
18. RESPONSE SERVICES
Service	Annual	Postage	Handling
	Licence		Charge
	Fee
Response Services	£73.40	Applicable First or	1.5p
		Second Class
Bar-coded Response Services	£73.40	Applicable First or	None
		Second Class
Freepost Name	£177.90	Applicable First	10p
		Class
Response Service with	£76.65	Applicable Special	None
Special Delivery (including		Delivery Charge
maximum compensation up
to £500)
Response Service with	£76.65	Applicable Special
Special Delivery (including		Delivery Charge	None
maximum compensation up
to £1000)
Response Service with	£76.65	Applicable Special
Special Delivery (including		Delivery Charge	None
maximum compensation up
to £2500)

The £73.40 (Response Service and Bar-coded Response Service) and the £76.65 (Special Delivery) licence fees listed above apply where the total number of licences held by a person does not exceed 10. Thereafter, each additional licence will carry a fee of £36.50.

19. SELECTAPOST

	Fees
		If delivered to a	If delivered to
		single point	multiple points
	Quarterly charge per selection	£27.60	£27.60
	Per 1000 Letters	£17.70	£18.30
	Per 1000 Large Letters	£26.55	£27.15
20. SPECIAL DELIVERY
Postage Stamp & Smart Stamp
Weight not over	Fee for maximum	Fee for maximum	Fee for maximum
		compensation up	compensation up	compensation up
		to £500	to £1,000	to £2,500
	100g	£4.60	£5.35	£6.45
	500g	£5.05	£5.80	£6.90
	1kg	£6.40	£7.15	£8.25
	2kg	£8.25	£9.00	£10.10
	10kg	£20.70	£21.45	£22.55

Franked Mail & Printed Postage Impression

Weight not over	Fee for maximum	Fee for maximum	Fee for maximum
		compensation up	compensation up	compensation up
		to £500	to £1,000	to £2,500
	100g	£4.45	£5.20	£6.30
	500g	£4.85	£5.60	£6.70
	1kg	£6.05	£6.80	£7.90
	2kg	£7.75	£8.50	£9.60
	10kg	£19.70	£20.45	£21.55

The Saturday guaranteed delivery service is £2 in addition to the fees shown above.

Signed by: John Rowley for and on behalf of Royal Mail Group Ltd.

Date: 14th March 2008

(a)	Royal Mail Group plc (a company registered in England and Wales under number 4138203) is a universal service provider as defined in section 4(3)(a) of the Postal Services Act 2000. Royal Mail Group plc is the successor postal services company referred to in article 37(1) of the Postal Service Act 2000. (Commencement No.4 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2001 (2001/1148 (C.37)). It changed its name from Consignia plc on 4 November 2002.
(b)	2000 c26
(c)	The Post Office Inland Letter Scheme 2000 was amended, renamed the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Letter Post Scheme 2001 and treated as made under section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000 by the article 37 of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No.4 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2001 (2001/1148(C37))
(d)	Belfast Gazette, 29 June 2001, issue number 6257
(e)	Belfast Gazette, 6 July 2001, issue number 6259
(f)	Belfast Gazette, 23 November 2001, issue number 6298
(g)	Belfast Gazette, 28 June 2002, issue number 6363
(h)	Belfast Gazette, 17 January 2003, issue number 6420
(i)	Belfast Gazette, 2 May 2003, issue number 6451
(j)	Belfast Gazette, 21 November 2003, issue number 6509
(k)	Belfast Gazette, 19 December 2003, issue number 6517
(l)	Belfast Gazette, 26 March 2004, issue number 6545

 (m)Belfast Gazette, 16 April 2004, issue number 6554

(n)	Belfast Gazette, 24 September 2004, issue number 6599
(o)	Belfast Gazette, 8th October 2004, issue number 6603
(p)	Belfast Gazette, 22nd October 2004, issue number 6607
(q)	Belfast Gazette, 17th December 2004, issue number 6623
(r)	Belfast Gazette, 18th February 2005, issue number 6635
(s)	Belfast Gazette, 1st April 2005, issue number 6648
(t)	Belfast Gazette, 1st April 2005, issue number 6648
(u)	Belfast Gazette, 15th July 2005, issue number 6681
(v)	Belfast Gazette, 24th March 2006 issue number 6752
(w)	Belfast Gazette, 21st April 2006, issue number 6760
(x)	Belfast Gazette, 9th June 2006, issue number 6774
(y)	Belfast Gazette, 28th July 2006, issue number 6788
(z)	Belfast Gazette, 16th March 2007, issue number 6854